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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Social media and Politics

Hello, Social media and politics ethic,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username The9Man and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged an article that you started, Social media and Politics, for deletion, because it's impossible to identify the subject of the article.

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The9Man | (talk) 12:38, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

• Hi! Make sure that you are careful to avoid accidentally moving things live! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I have some notes on your draft:

• The section on politics on the social media page is meant to be global in scale, so you should avoid focusing too heavily on the United States. You don't want to put undue weight on one country.

• Some of the sourcing doesn't go to the specific news story, so it can't verify the claims being made. You also want to be careful, as some sources aren't always usable. For example, if the Forbes link was written by a contributor then it would be seen as a self-published source, as those aren't verified or really edited by Forbes. Forbes Contributor posts are typically not seen as reliable.

• Be careful to avoid unattributed subjective statements. For example, you wrote the following:

Some ill-intentioned politicians misuse technology and take advantage of it to manipulate information, misinform the population and earn points in the polls.

Be extremely cautious about this, as this could be seen as us us making a personal statement about a politician's intentions. Someone could argue that the politician doesn't have ill intentions and that we are assuming that they do. If this was in the source, then it's important that this is attributed to the person making the claim. Keep in mind that we can only summarize what others have stated - we cannot make our own conclusions based on the sourcing.

It's also important to avoid subjective wording like "strong" and such for the same reasons.

Since this deals with modern day politics it's very important to make sure that any additions to this section are written as neutrally as possible, only summarize source material, and use the strongest possible sourcing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:47, 28 February 2020 (UTC)